WRN Kirklees & Wakefield

To create a hate list of organisations, most of which are self-funded, if funded at all, with no prior engagement with the organisations concerned, is a shocking fall from grace for what was once one of the leading global human rights charities. Whoever thought that @AmnestyUK would end up shilling for the right of cross dressing men to force their way into female only spaces. WRN are proud of our work and proud to be on this list alongside so many esteemed organisations fighting this insane ideology.

Gosh. So much money needing to be spent training staff, changing signs and amending policies. If only organisations had complied with the law, and respected women’s and girls’ rights. Just imagine how much money they’d have saved! Instead they allowed themselves to be led by the ideological nose by pressure groups. dailymail.com/news/article-1…

The Civil Service functions on the basis of neutrality. This is not a neutral appointment. Baroness Hunt is an anti-women rights activist who led Stonewall away from representing LGB on to aggressively pushing gender ideology into the UK’s major institutions. The phrase ‘Stonewall law’ comes from her tenure. It describes the wishful thinking that was promoted as best practice. Their workplace inclusion training misrepresented the actual law. Many of the court cases fought, and won, by women stem from the actions of Baroness Hunt. A dreadful appointment.

A rugby club in the West Midlands has lost 27 women to a rival club after they endured a catalogue of sexual and physical assault, and misogynist, bullying, behaviour from club members and coaches. The women of Coventry Welsh RFC were subjected to sexual harassment, body shaming, a punch in the face, fat shaming, indecent exposure … and when they escalated their complaints to the @RFU they claim the governing body did not take them seriously. The final straw was being told that the women’s team was the problem and they should train in the local park. The women have now joined another club and we wish them well. Our message to Coventry Welsh and the RFU: take a long hard look at the culture that has allowed this misogyny to flourish. It’s 2026, not 1926. Women belong in rugby. Get used to it.

🚩 Council ignores its residents. Children pay the price. Three years after local residents raised concerns about the proposed mixed-sex changing village at Halton Leisure Centre in Widnes, a man has been convicted of filming four children in the changing rooms. In 2023, a petition against the design, which gathered over 2,300 signatures from verified Halton residents, failed to sway the Council. Instead it took the word of the architect firm, Ellis Williams, which stated that: ‘A changing village design is recommended by Sport England as being preferable to the single-sex separate male and female open-plan changing rooms alternative.’ Single-sex changing was described as ‘old-fashioned’ according to minutes of a meeting of the council in September 2023. Tell that to the four children who were filmed by the 40-year-old male who preyed on them in the changing rooms. We wonder if the members of the Council have any sense of shame at the horror they have inflicted on these children because they refused to listen to the concerns of their local residents? Every council we have contacted about the dangers of mixed-sex changing tell us that @Sport_England advises mixed is preferred option. Sport England, however, tells us they don’t recommend any design over another and that Councils must conduct their own risk assessments before proceeding with any designs. Sport England and local councils are so busy passing the buck they haven’t bothered to stop and think: ‘Are we really comfortable with putting women and children in harm’s way?’ Currently, we can only assume that they have no qualms about building changing facilities with open access for sexual predators. 🚩

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“You people are obsessed with toilets and changing rooms.” Yup! And we’ll stay obsessed (aka focused) while women and children continue to be sexually assaulted in mixed-sex changing rooms. We invite @samanthaniblet4 to read our shocking Leisure Centre Reports. In brief: 🚩 At least three sexual assaults a week, ranging from voyeurism and illicit filming to rape, in the 257 leisure centres we surveyed 🚩 80%+ of sexual assaults in leisure centre changing rooms occur in mixed-sex changing rooms (with cubicles) 🚩 One-third of leisure centre swimming pools offer NO single-sex changing for swimmers We would be delighted to discuss this in person with the MP for South Derbyshire. Yours sincerely, ‘You People’ PS. Link to our Reports page in the next post.

The custodial sentences given to the rapists are welcome news. But it should not have taken an appeal against the original sentencing to ensure justice for the young girls who were the victims. The reality of sexual violence should never have been diminished in this way.

PARENTING ON TRIAL As Baroness Ludford @SarahLudford says, this ill-conceived Bill could criminalise concerned and responsible parents. Teenagers don't like being told no. A parent refusing to provide money for cross sex hormones to a confused and vulnerable child is a GOOD parent, not one that the State should be preparing a prison cell for.

We recently had the pleasure of speaking with @EloiseSchultz_ , Law Student & Freedom Advocate at the University of Leicester, and Founder of the university's new Women in Sport Society. @UoLWSS Eloise spoke eloquently of the need for fairness, dignity, privacy and safety for women and girls at all levels of sport. Full interview here 👇 womensrightsnetwork.substack…